Alcohol and tobacco-related sponsorsĪll alcohol and tobacco sponsors are censored. The game was officially launched in London ahead of the 2004 British Grand Prix with model Emma B acting as the face of the game.
The game features all the drivers and tracks from the 2004 Formula One World Championship, but does not represent the replacement drivers that featured in the real 2004 Formula One World Championship, therefore Timo Glock, Marc Gené, Antônio Pizzonia, Jacques Villeneuve and Ricardo Zonta are not featured.įormula One 04 was announced on 21 April 2004 by Sony Computer Entertainment, and was the second game in the exclusive deal between Sony Computer Entertainment and Formula One Administration, following Formula One 2003. įormula One 04 was released in Europe ( PAL) and Japan ( NTSC). Studio Liverpool responded to the fans' concerns about this issue and fixed this bug upon the release of the Platinum version. In the original version, there was a bug which during the timing of AI pitstops all the field crawled at pit lane speed, then they sped up once a few of the AI cars had made their stop, and it was very common to be following a car which suddenly came to a halt and the player would end up hitting their rear and ending their race.
This is the only F1 game in the series to be changed in terms of gameplay after the original release.
Players would then work their way up the grid throughout their ' career' through a mixture of good tests and impressive race performances. Players would start out testing in a generic Formula One car, and if they did well enough in the test they would be offered a contract by a small team such as Minardi. It is the first Formula One game developed by SCE Studio Liverpool to contain a 'Career Mode', which allowed players to work their way through the Formula One teams over the course of a fixed number of seasons (albeit a repeat version of the 2004 Formula One World Championship each time). The game features all ten teams and twenty drivers competing in the 2004 Formula One World Championship (except for mid-season changes), as well as the eighteen circuits and Grands Prix that formed the championship, including the new Bahrain International Circuit and Shanghai International Circuit.